Poverty as a Wicked Problem
The belief that poverty can be prevented by identifying and dealing with its causes, and the
generative mechanisms that lead to people being poor is misplaced. In this
Crop Poverty Brief, Paul Spicker argues for a pragmatic approach to poverty, rather than an analytical one. He describes poverty as a
wicked issue - complex, multidimensional, unclear and changeable. Responding to poverty is thus not solving a problem: It is trying to make things better than they were before.
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